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6/27/2012 9:23AM

Wal-Mart Limps Behind in Health-Clinic Race

Five years after Wal-Mart promised to open thousands of health-care clinics in its supercenters, it has fallen far behind rivals in what has become a race to provide basic medical care in stores. Shelly Banjo reports. Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the ... well right now we're showing you which are of course Wal Mart's the clinics that they've opened in their stores to help meet the demand for primary medical care that promise to open a lot more BP can see the rivals like CVS and Walgreens ... Walgreen are way ahead Shelly Banjo joins us now to talk about the silly things for Cummins her thanks for having me so ... Chris let's let's get people back to hear what it promised to build is the senior story thousands of medical clinics ... bite twenty twelve and they have just a hundred forty nine that it really ... what happened ... in two thousand and seven NCLB Scott said ... no we really wanna do this Healthcare thing Wal-Mart is known for ... bring low-cost to inefficient industries so let's let's take the same thing we did the retail ... cost of ten thousand stores ... across the Weld ... and it was held in health care ... clinics pharmacies vision centers all that ... they've done pretty well on the pharmacy to pharmacy and vision centers ... I he's been helping employ years when the nightmare pharmacy that if I were seizing the statist or eleven percent of sales go to a sixty four billion of us it's ... not just by misses the total profit on its own can doubt that they are the products they've just fallen behind Nescafe they self admitted they say they ... they haven't figured out yet and you mention it ... would seem to be I guess that ... considering that health and well this is because it's a big part of business the clinics ... might be the Greeks ... the you know that they're the law to allow the synergy ... theoretically but what what specific ways happened is ... kept Wal-Mart ... so far behind rivals Chartwell bottles like CVS and Walgreens they bought a subsidiary's keyboard work of reading these things on their own ... they could've under the corporate umbrella so they have no control over prices service is herrings stuff like that so anything that happens ... is standardized across the across the country ... was one that is and what are taking it went a step backward and a third party providers in their health care hospitals and ... health care networks and individual doctors even with a good idea ... they can run the business however they want and so it doesn't really depend on ... on Mama and so what the big companies try to deal with ... a hundred and forty nine different clinics run by semi different providers and ... they don't always have that control to see if this can it succeeded until decreases your stories are mostly providers may take patience and and and direct them ... to the services exec elsewhere allegiance to the public and of course ... AIG's of these additional between reading your continues to be great because really what they do is they cut down on emergency room visits when ... you know you're suffering from a cold or something like you checked out per ... se just running water so the other services that that these kind of clicks from on ... the really expanding because them they're taking on a lot of patience from crop chronic chronic illnesses like diabetes and ... proceeded to going every week to get to what pressure things like that ... that's going to leave the hospital system alot and I'm ... on Thursday the Supreme Court is can a role on whether or not ... and the health care bills in the Opals that could send another thirty million people into the insurance this time and ... it's been a really crowd out position physicians' offices and so ... these comments are one way to relief that ... the course we have a lot of coverage ... on the Supreme Court's decision is to be coming tomorrow ... on the health care law but let let's go back in it is ... now ... what he said ... I mean ADP said U S to greet the new in your story with where they had kind of ... I guess or fish Leeson something of that so they wanted the Wii and designs to be ... the largest provider of primary healthcare services in the nation ... that was a quote I guess from the dock together they kind of backtracked on that ... yes the last year they send out this fourteen page requests for information to a lot of different people health care providers hospitals doctors ... and when it was a good idea ... some people at the time called it a fishing expedition aam ... but as soon as it leads to the press of Wal-Mart backtracking to know we we don't wanna become the biggest health care provider in the world that we don't do that ... that was overridden ... we didn't mean it ... you know but it's also a little too late is a myth is that we do we think maybe they actually do have those designs well Yeh not and I can stay for the company but it is something that's a one percent of their business and they're looking to expand ... and I'm critics don't seem to be the last ... really okay so so it does actually be proud that we've we've ... baby ... to look for it is certainly good ... in two short order ... well they're doing in expanding the pharmacies they're expanding their mission centers there ... and now the third-largest time for prescription plan ... aam after only being in operation for two years so ... this lake products they're doing really well at because that's